We are pleased to announce
two mini-courses this spring.
We invite mental health professionals to join us for these mini-courses that provide a psychoanalytic perspective on Trauma and Aging.
Understanding Trauma: Theory and Practice
Instructor: Lisa Sokoloff, LCSW
Ms. Sokoloff is on the faculty of IPS and is a control analyst. She is in private practice with a focus on trauma work.
This course will introduce mental health professionals to contemporary concepts of trauma, how it develops and how it can be treated clinically. Topics will include neurobiology, dissociation and body-based techniques. Students will gain a basic understanding of trauma theory and methods of practice through readings and case discussion.
Learning Objectives:
Clinicians will understand the concept of dissociation and learn how to work with multiple self-states in treatment.
Clinicians will understand the role of the amygdala in trauma and will be shown ways to calm the brain's nerve center.
Clinicians will learn body-based techniques for working with trauma survivors.
Instructors: Mosse Burns, LCSW, Regina Minsky, LCSW, and Carmela Shlahet, MS, NCPsyA
Ms. Burns, Ms. Minsky and Ms. Shlahet are all on the facutly of IPS and are control analysts. Each have a private practice with a focus on gerontology.
The purpose of this course is to educate mental health professionals in working with seniors utilizing a psychoanalytic therapeutic approach. Course meetings will focus on the understanding of such concepts as transference, countertransference, resistance, and character traits. The instructors will demonstrate how these concepts manifest themselves in therapy with seniors.
Learning Objectives:
The therapist will identify the heightened induced reactions when working with patients dealing with aging, illness and the prospect of death.
Identify the therapist’s own needs to care for him or herself when attending to the treatment needs of the patient.
Help the therapist establish and maintain emotional presence and connection when working with the patient.
These mini-courses provide a psychoanalytic perspective to Trauma and Aging.
Each class will meet for four sessions of two hours on Tuesday evenings at 6:30 pm. The course location will be at the 5 Star Residence, 655 Pomander Walk, Teaneck, NJ 07666. The dates of the class meetings are April 25th, May 9th, May 23rd, and June 6th.
The fee for each course is $150. Please pay through PayPal or pay by check to IPS and mail to the following address:
14-25 Plaza Road, Suite N 2-4
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
Please register by April 17th.
The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6334. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Please call 201-457-0809 or email ipsinfo@ipsnewjersey.org with questions about New Jersey social work CE's.
